Vorlesung und Hörsaal als Symptomwörter für Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutschen Sprache

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  • The article starts with the etymology of the words Vorlesung („lecture“) and Hörsaal (“lecture hall”). On the one hand, it turns out that the two expressions are deeply anchored in the history of the old Latin scientific language. They transmit Latin structures and perspectives in German neologisms. On the other hand, the two words arose exactly at the time when the sciences were moving from Latin to German, thus distancing themselves from the traditional forms of Latin scholarship. In this light, they exemplify an epochal change in the historyThe article starts with the etymology of the words Vorlesung („lecture“) and Hörsaal (“lecture hall”). On the one hand, it turns out that the two expressions are deeply anchored in the history of the old Latin scientific language. They transmit Latin structures and perspectives in German neologisms. On the other hand, the two words arose exactly at the time when the sciences were moving from Latin to German, thus distancing themselves from the traditional forms of Latin scholarship. In this light, they exemplify an epochal change in the history of the German language, but at the same time they represent a great European continuity. Against this background, the two words can be interpreted as symptomatic words associated with the Enlightenment’s confident outlook on the future relationship between science and society. Further corpus linguistic surveys also show how productively the two words appear in word formation processes. In particular, these surveys show by way of example that and how German standard language has benefited from the emergence of German academic language.show moreshow less

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Subtitle (German):Eine wortbasierte Skizze mit sozialgeschichtlichen Interpretationen
Title Additional (English):Vorlesung (“Lecture”) and Hörsaal (“lecture hall”) as symptomatic words for the history and present of the German language : a word-based sketch including social-historical interpretations
Author: Wolf Peter Klein
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250810
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für deutsche Philologie
Language:German
Parent Title (German):Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
ISSN:1613-0626
ISSN:0301-3294
Year of Completion:2021
Volume:49
Issue:3
First Page:556
Last Page:595
Source:Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik (2021) 49:3, 665-595. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2021-2039
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2021-2039
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch
4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 432 Etymologie des Deutschen
Tag:Etymologie; Hörsaal; Vorlesung
Release Date:2022/03/22
Date of first Publication:2021/12/08
Note:
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht